Formation of Suncheon Bay
The history of Suncheon Bay is about 8000 years. The study of geologists says that after the last glacial epoch on the earth, the level of sea increased about 160 m (520 ft). The western area of Korea, called West Sea, turned from the land to the sea. The Korean peninsula was what it is now. It is estimated that in Suncheon Bay to have been of brackish water, earth and sand, coming along the river, has been accumulated long time by the tide of sea and the accumulation consisted in extensive sandbar.
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